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9 October 2008

DH invests £11m in dental IT training

The DH has announced it will give an extra £11m to ten of the 11 dental teaching hospitals in England,
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9 October 2008

Scottish NHS gets £1m to secure USB ports

NHS boards across Scotland are to share £1m to help them improve their IT security, beginning with securing USB ports.
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9 October 2008

iSoft to launch RadCentre in the Netherlands

Health IT specialist iSoft says it will launch its RadCentre radiology information system in the Netherlands this autumn.
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8 October 2008

ASSIST says idea NHS like a bank ‘fundamentally flawed’

NHS informatics professional body ASSIST has published a paper saying the original NHS National Programme for IT plan of a
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8 October 2008

Royal Brompton and Harefield implements WLAN

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, has implemented a wireless local area network (WLAN) supplied by French telecoms giant
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8 October 2008

Leicester to use WinScribe digital dictation

The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust will introduce SRC’s WinScribe digital dictation systems in a bid to meet Department
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8 October 2008

Leading US health web sites merge

The number two and three US health website networks are to merge to take on the might of market leader
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7 October 2008

PCTs increase Choose and Book incentives

A London PCT is to pay its GPs £3.50 for every referral made under Choose and Book as trusts step
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7 October 2008

GPs face limits on third party add-ons

GPs in some parts of England claim they are facing unworkable restrictions on the kind of third party IT they
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7 October 2008

PCTs criticised over IM+T DES ruling

GP representatives claim PCTs are acting incorrectly by setting a minimum number of records that have to be electronically summarised
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